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diff --git a/fltk/lib/README b/fltk/lib/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5686bc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/fltk/lib/README @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +README.lib +---------- + +This directory is used as a destination for the libraries fltk +compiles. "make install" will copy them to /usr/local/lib by default. + +Fltk will compile a number of libraries, the multiple libraries are +designed to avoid having programs depend on libraries they are not +acutally using. For instance if the OpenGL functions were put into the +main fltk library you would be forced to link OpenGL even if your +program is not using it. This is a design problem with present-day +implementations of shared libraries on both Unix and Windows. + +The libraries are: + + fltk2 - the core of fltk2, most programs only need this + fltk2_images - functions that use glut, png, jpg, other image libraries + fltk2_gl - Fl_Gl_Window and functions that use OpenGL + fltk2_glut - glut emulation functions + fltk2_forms - forms emulation functions + +Under UNIX you can compile either shared or static libraries. Static +libraries are the default and have names like libfltk2.a. Shared +libraries have (on most Unix systems) names like libfltk2.so.2. To +enable shared libraries run "./configure --enable-shared". + +Under Microsoft Visual C++ a successful build of all projects and +configurations will contain debug (fltk2d.lib and fltk2dlld.lib) and +release (fltk2.lib fltk2dll.lib) libraries for you to link to. Both are +built using the multi-threaded settings. The DLL files (fltk2dll.dll +and fltk2dlld.dll) required for a complete DLL-based binary distribution +are located in the "visualc" directory. WAS: is this correct? What +about when you use GCC or BC++? + |